Source shall be a vegetarian, multi-dimensional dining experience

Introducing Source, a new vegetarian restaurant headed to the Design District. But it’s not just any vegetarian restaurant; it’s a “multi-dimensional” restaurant offering “mainstream international comfort vegetarian food prepared in unique ways.”

Or, as co-owner Andrew Fox puts it, it’s going to be a place that feeds the body and the soul. Fox and his brother Mitchell are the two owners — both born and bred in New Jersey/New York, and longtime restaurant workers. They’ve worked in the meat business, while being vegetarians. At Source, they say they’re not trying to create a belief system or anything like that — just making good food in a way that is good for everyone, animals and the planet.

The aforementioned “international comfort vegetarian food” will be led by about eight pizzas, coming out of a gas-fired Mugnaini oven. That oven, by the way, will be surrounded by a sculpture of a dragon head, so that it looks like the pizzas will be coming out of the dragon’s mouth.

Mitchell Fox is the chef, and he’ll make his own breads and mozzarella(he learned to make it in the Bronx). He’ll also offer casserole dishes, veggie dogs and faux meat dishes. But they won’t bill faux meat as such. Instead, they’ll use the sounds that the animal makes. So, Chicken Tikka Masala would be Cluck Tikka Masala; Peking Duck will be Peking Quack.

The “modern, funky” design will follow the New Age vibe as well. There will be 40-50 seats inside, plus another 30 on a heated patio. Air will be filtered and ionized. There will be a 8×10 foot water wall installation. A special sound system will be in place and a light system will help create the mood via color therapy.

Instead of a normal alcohol bar, there will be an iridescent elixir bar, with things like euphoric elixirs, calming elixirs and energetic elixirs, all served in cocktail glasses, mixed with fresh pressed juices.